The GABF is the world’s largest beer competition and recognizes the most outstanding beers that were entered into the competition from the United States. The top three medalists in each of the competition’s 99 beer-style categories were announced October 7th at the 31st GABF Awards Ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center.

The 2017 GABF Competition winners were selected by an international panel of 276 beer experts from an impressive field of 8,041 competition entries, including 118 entries in the Pro-Am category (an 11 percent increase from 2016) received from 2,217 U.S. breweries.

Items of interest from the 2017 GABF Competition:

The Small Brewing Company and Small Brewing Company Brewer of the Year | 1,000 – 14,999 BBLS

Sponsored by O-I was awarded to Sunriver Brewing, Sunriver, OR to the Sunriver Brewing Team

Sunriver Brewing tied for the most number of Gold medals with 2.

The Breakside Brewery team over their three brewing locations in Milwaukie and Portland won the most medals at the 2017 GABF with 4 medals, with at least one from each brewing location.

Breakside IPA also won the Bronze medal in the largest category of any beer competition ever held with 408 entries. Breakside is the only repeat medal winner in the American IPA category in the last 5 years. Oregon breweries have won the gold medal in this category in 2 of the last 5 years. Breakside was also the only brewery to win more than one medal in the top 5 categories with the most entries.